As reported in the Spring 2017 issue of Affordable Housing News.
For the first time, real estate buyers who wish to preserve affordable housing properties in the Twin Cities metropolitan area will have access to a $25 million fund to help them do so.
The NOAH Impact Fund is the result of a partnership between Greater Minnesota Housing Fund (GMHF) and local foundations, banks, and state and local governments. The goal of the effort is to purchase up to 20 percent of the affordable rental properties that come up for sale each year in the seven-county metro area in and around Minneapolis and Saint Paul.
“We will be able to preserve the affordability of more than 1,000 units of naturally affordable housing in the Twin Cities metro over the next two years,” says Warren Hanson, President and CEO of GMHF. “This is important to our mission, which is to create and preserve affordable housing throughout the state. The loss of affordable housing is most acute in the Twin Cities metro, which is an increasingly hot rental market.”
For the past 20 years, GMHF has focused its efforts on creating and preserving subsidized housing. It’s now changing that approach.
